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Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Secchi Carlo

Development and Wellbeing A Question of Works

The economic development and fortunes of States over the centuries have been sustained and often conditioned by the construction of infrastructure. This has allowed many backwards and economically depressed regions to reach excellent levels of prosperity. In addition, the system of infrastructure has had, and still has, an evident geopolitical impact. In that regard, the Treaty of Rome of 1957 expressly ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Perretti Fabrizio

When Innovations are Fake

Innovators and startups have two tests to pass: the first is on illusions , that is, the ability to convince others that the future they envision is possible, and the second regards reality , i.e. when you realize if the future as imagined has actually come to be. The case of Theranos, a startup founded in 2003 by the 19-year old Elizabeth Holmes, shows how these two phases are indispensable to have ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Conti Ilaria

TAP: a Priority for Europe. And for Italy?

The TAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) is one of the so-called PCIs, the projects considered as priority for the European Union’s energy policy. As it crosses through Italy to reach the markets of Northern Europe, our country should benefit from a whole series of indirect advantages deriving from this infrastructure.#These are linked mainly to the certainty of supplies and the geopolitical and strategic ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Chiaramonte Xenia

TAV: the Project that Doesn’t Exist

The high-speed rail line is not the first major project concerning the Val Susa area: there was the “ecological highway,” then the power line, and now the high-speed train line (TAV). Initially, the opposition led by the Habitat Committee against a “conception of the territory as a passive resource” was low-key, but it served to arouse the population.#The No TAV message is clear and summed ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Dalla Longa Remo

The competitive advantage of the global city

Over the last two decades there has been a transformation of the systemic components that make up urban infrastructure. We cannot understand this upheaval, and the great problems and challenges it raises, if we do not analyze the main variables of this epochal change that lead us to add the term "new" to the more general concept of urban infrastructure.#In the context of globalization, we are witnessing ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Nanni Gabriele, Zanchini Edoardo

New Mobility for the Country

From 2002 to date, 60 percent of state funding has gone to investments in roads and highways. Yet 42 percent of the national population lives in urban areas, where there is the largest infrastructure gap with respect to the rest of Europe, and above all, where we find most of the demand for transport. To deal with that demand, there should be an increase in the number of trains in circulation, starting ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/4) Ferraris Luigi

Electric transition between the present and the future

In the last 20 years, Italy has gone from an electricity system is based on large production plants, to a structure with rapid growth of renewable sources, in particular wind and solar, and a gradual drop in thermoelectric capacity. In this context, Terna has identified some lines of action, including strengthening its commitment on the network and on interconnections abroad to increase the infrastructure ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Amatori Franco

The Long Autumn in Italy’s History

In the 1970s, Italy lived through an unprecedented cycle of labor conflict, that started with the Fiat strike in September 1969, and ended with the “March of 40,000” in Turin in October 1980.#The dynamics of industrial relations in Italy had previously seen moments of particularly strong conflict which had been followed by a retreat of the unions: the occupation of the Red Biennial (1919-1920), ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Abba Laura

The Internet Needs Good Governance

Autumn 1969 in California saw the birth of the ARPANET, which enabled the transmission of data from one computer to another and laid the basis for the creation of a Network on a global scale in the following decades.#Today 4.39 billion people use the Network, 57 percent of the world’s population. One of the crucial questions is that of Internet Governance, which must be managed through a multi-stakeholder ...

Magazine article (E&M - 2019/2) Sommariva Andrea

A Synergy of Public and Private in Space Exploration

The first phase in the history of human exploration of space, in the 1950s and ’60s, saw a pre-eminent role of government: public investment in the military field and the missions to the moon set off processes of technological innovation with very positive spinoffs for the economies as a whole, as in the case of the development of satellite technologies,#Since the 1970s, more and more private corporations ...